Meanwhile, Santana (Naya Rivera) successfully schemes to get Brittany (Heather Morris) to join the other glee club with Mercedes (Amber Riley). (Long story short, Rory is staying with Brittany, she thinks he’s a leprechaun. Santana uses this to her advantage. Rory also grants Brittany the ultimate dream come true of having a bowl of marshmallow-only Lucky Charms.)

Finn (Cory Monteith) stands up for Rory against the football bullies and gets him to join New Directions — giving the group some desperately needed new blood.

As for the rest of the episode, Burt (Mike O’Malley) decides to run for Congress against she-who-shall-not-be-named. This makes this “I want to destroy the arts in schools” storyline a little bit more bearable.

And Blaine (Darren Criss) provides us with the first iPod worthy song of the season — a cover of Katy Perry‘s “Last Friday Night.”

The show finishes with Puck’s tongue (Mark Salling) in Shelby’s mouth. That won’t turn out well.